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Re: Stop talking

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Post by giancarlostoro »

leetrout wrote: post #6
giancarlostoro wrote: post #2

I get it. This is roughly me, I don't always have the best answers, but I know most things can always be done better. I've coined a few different terms over the years such as "marketing driven development" when I wind up working in places where the marketing team is driving the devs off a cliff, and pushing new features at the expense of ever having time to deal with technical debt. The industry really needs "Tech De…

I didn't RTFA - just responding to you: > Tech Debt Thursdays Yes, "Fix it Fridays" is another alliteration. Have you ever heard the phrase "man your battle stations"? Turns out in the US Navy there is also "cleaning stations" and there is a call for all hands to cleaning stations on the regular. I have proposed something similar on a few teams I've been on. Daily won't work and quarterly is too long. The problem is…

There's also in some places 'Friday Afternoon Projects' (also known as FAP iykyk) where you're allowed to work on anything, I'd honestly prefer companies allow me to work on whatever I want once a week so I can put energy into tech debt items, and tools that might make everybody's lives easier.

Re: Stop talking

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Post by RankingMember »

vrnvu wrote: post #8

Everyone can talk and give opinions. The real question is if you can actually make a difference. I tell people there's a gap between knowing how to do something and actually doing it. And that gap is a big part of our engineering skills. If I'm not going to change something, I'd rather not talk or give opinions. Related: https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-...

Aye, someone full of ideas for other people to take ownership of isn't actually being helpful (unless that's explicitly their job)

Re: Stop talking

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Post by giardini »

Bad idea. I want people working around me to notice, be uncomfortable and especially speak up if something is amiss. Unless you work in a malignant environment, this should be normal behavior.

Re: Stop talking

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Post by nozzlegear »

jsrozner wrote: post #27
catigula wrote: post #3

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Yes, it is, 100%. One does not even need an AI detector; it's obvious from the first sentence: "brought a lot of context, more scars, and more pattern recognition." "Like a lineman sees a frayed cable." Lol. This is the sloppiest slop there is. But you got downvoted for pointing out that it was slop. I got similarly downvoted a couple days ago. Hackernews folk seem uninterested in having it pointed out when AI is bei…

> But you got downvoted for pointing out that it was slop. I got similarly downvoted a couple days ago. [...]

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."

- Benjamin Franklin

Re: Stop talking

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Post by NickyD »

vrnvu wrote: post #8

Everyone can talk and give opinions. The real question is if you can actually make a difference. I tell people there's a gap between knowing how to do something and actually doing it. And that gap is a big part of our engineering skills. If I'm not going to change something, I'd rather not talk or give opinions. Related: https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-...

I’m in the situation the article is talking about where I’m both suggesting advice and willing to do the work. But it requires me to have some allotted time and the boss says we don’t have the resources even 1 hour a week.

It’s like we’re moving chopped wood from the forest to the village and I suggest building a wheelbarrow but the boss says what we don’t have time for that we gotta move all this chopped wood. It’s crushing to have a job that could be very interesting but the tooling and processes sap all of that out.

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